WEST TAWAKONI, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Valor Storage, a 180-unit self-storage facility in West Tawakoni, located about 50 miles east of Dallas. The property was built in 2000 and spans 20,400 net rentable square feet. Danny Cunningham and Brandon Karr of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a Dallas-based private investor, in the transaction. The duo also procured the Austin-based buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.
SAN ANTONIO — Sodalis Senior Living has purchased Sodalis at Stone Oak, a 63-unit assisted living and memory care complex in San Antonio. Sodalis is the current operator at the facility, which was built in 2017. The unit mix consists of 42 assisted living residences and 21 memory care units. Evans Senior Investment brokered the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. At the time of sale, Sodalis at Stone Oak was 95 percent occupied.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — SVN | J. Beard Real Estate – Greater Houston, a locally based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of Spring Hill Business Park, a 60,000-square-foot industrial flex property located about 30 miles north of Houston in The Woodlands. Neal King of SVN | J. Beard represented the sellers, both of which were local limited liability companies, in the transaction. The buyer was a private partnership. All parties involved in the deal requested anonymity.
HOUSTON — Atlanta-based investment firm MDH Partners has acquired a 603,389-square-foot industrial facility in Houston. Completed in 2023, the facility is situated within the 36.9-acre, 3.3 million-square-foot South Belt Central Business Park on the city’s south side. Building features include 36-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and parking for 442 cars and 196 trailers. Trent Agnew, Charles Strauss and Tom Weber with JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Georga Rowe represented MDH Partners on an internal basis.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage firm NewQuest Properties and Red Oak Commercial have negotiated the sale of Virtuo Med Center Apartments, a 326-unit multifamily community in Houston. The property was built on 6.4 acres in 2020. Units come in studio, one- and two-bedroom units that range in size from 509 to 1,189 square feet. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, private dining area, coffee bar and a podcast room. Glenn Dickerson and Brad LyBrand of NewQuest represented the undisclosed seller in the off-market transaction. The buyer, a private investor based in the Northeast, was also not disclosed.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — Partners Real Estate has brokered the sale of a 50,000-square-foot cold storage facility located within Sugar Land Business Park on the southwestern outskirts of Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 12501 Cardinal Meadow Drive was built in 2000. Chris Caudill of Partners and John Ferruzzo of Transwestern jointly represented the seller, Mainna Investments LP, in the transaction. Will Austin of Bridge Commercial represented the buyer, Gearment Investment LLC.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Largo Capital, a commercial intermediary based in upstate New York, has arranged a $2.8 million acquisition loan for a retail property in Arlington. The newly constructed property was fully occupied at the time of the loan closing by a car wash operator on a 20-year lease. The borrower was an undisclosed private investor based in the Northeast. The direct lender was also not disclosed.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Akorbi, a provider of language services and workplace solutions like staffing, payroll and compliance, has signed a 10,573-square-foot office lease in El Paso. Jeff Pappas of Newmark represented Akorbi, which now operates 10 facilities including its Plan headquarters, in the lease negotiations. Will Brown and Michael McBroom of Sonny Brown Associates represented the undisclosed landlord.
By Taylor Williams Multifamily investment sales activity has been muted across major Texas markets during the first half of 2023, underscoring the unfortunate reality that even the most coveted asset classes are not immune to severe macroeconomic headwinds. Much like a year ago, the combined effects of stubborn inflation and corresponding interest rate hikes have wrought visibly negative changes to the world of multifamily investment sales. But in summer 2022, deals were still getting done at a decent clip; price disparities and depreciation were the most significant and obvious impediments to deal velocity. Today, buyers and sellers are more closely aligned on market realities as relates to price points, but many are simply not motivated to transact — at least in the short term. According to data from RealPage, in the first quarter of 2023, there were 337 multifamily transactions within the Dallas-Plano-Irving triangle, down from 510 in the first quarter of 2022. The greater Houston area saw 266 deals executed in the first quarter this year, a decline from 410 during that period in 2022, while the Austin market’s total number of transaction fell from 191 to 123 quarter-over-quarter. Multifamily sales prices responded differently to reduced deal volume from …
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Texas A&M University has broken ground on a $150 million academic building in Fort Worth that marks the beginning of development of a larger, four-block campus. The first building will rise eight stories and house the Texas A&M School of Law as well as other academic divisions. The university is collaborating with the City of Fort Worth and Tarrant County on the project, which will feature two additional buildings. The first will be known as The Research & Innovation Building. The second, The Gateway Building, will house offices, more classroom and meeting spaces and a conference center. The law building is slated for a 2025 delivery, with full completion of the first three buildings targeted for 2027.